Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of Western India. His Highness the Nawab Saheb of Junagadh, a Moslem ruling a predominantly Hindu state, decided to join Pakistan. One of his sub-chiefs, the ruler of Babariawad, applied for admission to India. The Nawab rushed troops to Babariawad. Some 60,000 of his subjects fled to India...
Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
...commander of the rebels, Colonel Rafael Franco, onetime Provisional President of Paraguay, did not stop to investigate the source of Morinigo's new arms. He fled by seaplane last week to Argentina. His two gunboats, the Paraguay and Humaitd, soon followed. Six months of civil war were sputtering to a close...
...First Year. In Lisbon. Newlywed Francisco Carvalho fled to the airport, crawled into the landing gear housing...
...nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death and the war's-end decay, Leopoldskron had lost its reason for existence...